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I'm currently brainstorming ways to create artistic renditions of historical documents (photographs, maps, newspapers, letters, and landscapes) to help tell a story of events covered in my dissertation. This is a creative approach that I'm experimenting with and the idea came through the speculative and historical fiction that has helped me cope with 2020. The goal of this creative component is to develop research methods that are not only more publicly accessible but more engaging than standard linear text. https://www.ivan-g-soto.com/blog/blogging-through-the-rubble monthly 0.5 2021-07-29 https://www.ivan-g-soto.com/blog/category/Grad+School+Tipcs monthly 0.5 https://www.ivan-g-soto.com/blog/category/Grad+School+Tips monthly 0.5 https://www.ivan-g-soto.com/home-ready daily 1.0 2024-08-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f4b9051f6fb35a167cbbdc/6bb2a534-bf08-4da2-bda9-dcc63443a664/hres090823_1350.jpg Home - Hi, I’m Iván González-Soto. I’m an Assistant Professor of Latinx History at Washington State University Vancouver, and a Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellow with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f4b9051f6fb35a167cbbdc/1626673111205-FMKLRKAJDFKTI8I5XRFE/Screen+Shot+2021-07-18+at+10.37.38+PM.png Home - Iván’s Blog Resources and quick tips for first-generation humanities graduate students. I also use this blog to reflect on readings, project ideas, and research questions. https://www.ivan-g-soto.com/research daily 0.75 2021-07-29 https://www.ivan-g-soto.com/fellowships-awards daily 0.75 2022-01-20 https://www.ivan-g-soto.com/publichumanities daily 0.75 2022-03-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f4b9051f6fb35a167cbbdc/4c694e1e-62a7-4b22-9092-94bbcc17abc4/Ivan_G_Soto_Dissertation_to_Graphic_Novel.jpg Public Humanities - Graphic rendition of my dissertation: Dissertation Title: “Water is King—Here is its Kingdom: Race, Labor, and the Environment in the Making of California’s Imperial Valley, 1900-2000” For this sample page, I pulled and adjusted language from the first page of my dissertation prospectus: “For better or worse, growing up in the Imperial Valley shaped my worldview. Aridity, aqueducts, and agricultural wellsprings were distinctive features on the land and they imposed upon my daily surroundings—they were a paradox of a world in which water was king. Rural towns and unincorporated communities punctuated rows of irrigated fields while geothermal plants billowed steam into warm desert skies. Nothing seemed remarkable, and nothing made sense, except in the light of agribusiness. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f4b9051f6fb35a167cbbdc/1647644992785-7UJZ44LFME404NYV06QX/Screen+Shot+2022-03-18+at+3.59.11+PM.png Public Humanities https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f4b9051f6fb35a167cbbdc/1647644998699-14JT5V3OTLIA3HCC2MWX/Screen+Shot+2022-03-18+at+3.59.45+PM.png Public Humanities https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f4b9051f6fb35a167cbbdc/1647645001366-S01HDWROYX7AI41JXOQL/Screen+Shot+2022-03-18+at+3.59.56+PM.png Public Humanities https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f4b9051f6fb35a167cbbdc/1647645048144-BF1KPL3SBU0HDU1QYCW3/Screen+Shot+2022-03-18+at+4.10.27+PM.png Public Humanities https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f4b9051f6fb35a167cbbdc/1647645052430-3VO8P5XIKJSXI9FO3UOG/Screen+Shot+2022-03-18+at+4.10.40+PM.png Public Humanities https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f4b9051f6fb35a167cbbdc/6a0b7fa8-e798-4018-9e0b-f0810a26c3d2/Ivan_G_Soto_Dissertation_to_Graphic_Novel.jpg Public Humanities - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f4b9051f6fb35a167cbbdc/303835ed-563f-44fa-9967-5386ef0ac629/CoverPage_Thirsty+for+Change.png Public Humanities - Thirsty for Change: Based in a fictional town in rural California, “Thirsty for Change'” explores themes in environmental justice and the right to clean water. This bilingual comic book introduces concepts in water governance and illustrates the possibility of systemic change to water management through community empowerment. Resources from the nonprofit organization, Community Water Center, are included within. Funded through the Henry Luce Foundation and the Center for the Humanities at the University of California, Merced. Illustrated by: Jazz Diaz Samples available through the gallery below. Download the full version on eScholarship. It’s free.